Pitt meets McCormack in Beirut, where she is a nurse and something shadowy besides, and that's where they fall in love, although a movie this fast-moving has no time for conversations and tenderness, and so we have to accept their relationship on faith. and China.Īs Redford is quizzed by his masters, flashbacks show him meeting Pitt in Vietnam and later using him in operations in Berlin, Beirut and Hong Kong. The framework is 24 hours during which Redford must scheme, lie and deceive in order to save Pitt, who the Agency plans to sacrifice nothing must upset top-level trade talks between the U.S. Now Pitt is in a Chinese prison, captured in the act of helping Catherine McCormack escape, and it's Redford who was responsible for her being there. It stars Robert Redford as a veteran CIA spymaster, on his last day at work, and Brad Pitt as the young idealist he recruited after Vietnam. That's not so say the film is without interest. We see it less as a story than as an exercise. You wanna walk? You wanna walk, walk.Oddly, although both movies have about the same running times, the slower pace of “The Tailor of Panama” makes it seem shorter than the fast pace of “Spy Game.” Scott's restless camera, with flashbacks and whooshes, resists our attention it moves so fast that things don't seem to matter so much, and because it discourages contemplation, we don't develop a stake in the material. And if you're not willing to sacrifice scum like Schmidt for those that want nothing more than their freedom, then you better take a long hard look at your chosen profession my friend. Because what we do is unfortunately very, very necessary. Nathan Muir: That's exactly what it's about.

Nathan, what are we doing here? And don't give me some bullshit about the greater good. Okay, then you got to help me understand this one.

You don't just trade these people like they're baseball cards! It's not a fucking game!

Nathan Muir: He was your asset, somebody you use for information.

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